12/10/19 Quanta Why the laws of physics are inevitable By considering simple symmetries, physicists working on the “bootstrap” have rederived the four known forces.
12/09/19 Cosmos Part of a disCERNing crowd Australian astrophysicist Martin White discusses life with and around the Large Hadron Collider.
12/06/19 Time Will we ever find dark matter in the universe? Despite our considerable efforts, there remain essential facets of our universe that we simply do not know how to explain.
11/27/19 Quanta Top dark matter candidate loses ground to tiniest competitor Focus in the search for dark matter may be shifting to the axion, an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD 07/25/24 Sarah Charley Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.
09/25/12 Streaming science What may be the world’s largest freestanding plastic structure is taking shape in Ash River, Minn. You’re invited to watch.
09/20/12 African School of Physics student awarded international fellowship Laza Rakotondravohitra will pursue his Ph.D. as part of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab.
09/18/12 ATLAS collaboration gains real recognition for virtual visits program A jury of 30 experts judged the ATLAS Virtual Visits program as the top online event of 2012 in European public relations and communication.
09/18/12 Klystron Klystrons are at the heart of particle accelerators, radar, cancer treatments and some radio telescopes.
09/12/12 NOvA: Exploring neutrino mysteries On Monday, Sept. 10, crews finished installing the first block of the 14-kiloton NOvA detector. What will the experiment do?
09/11/12 From particle physics to the computing industry A new generation of computer scientists is applying unique skills learned in particle physics to tough problems in industry, working on everything from high-efficiency light bulbs to Internet search engines.
09/05/12 The Dark Energy Camera opens its eyes A long-awaited device that will help unravel one of the universe’s most compelling mysteries gets ready to see first light.
09/05/12 SLAC at 50 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory honors its five-decade history as it forges ahead into new areas of scientific research.